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By a decision of 26 March 2014, the Management Board of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) removed Ukraine from the list of safe countries of origin, reducing their number to 17 (Albania, Armenia, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Georgia, Ghana, Mauritius, India, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Senegal, Serbia and Tanzania).

In light of recent unrest and violence in Ukraine in late 2013 and early 2014, UNHCR has published a Note calling on States to remove Ukraine from their ‘safe country of origin’ lists. Applicants for international protection from a designated ‘safe country of origin’ may be dealt with in an accelerated procedure with reduced safeguards.